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By Liam - Thursday, May 8th, 2008
The EAT have recently heard an appeal from an Appellant that the Tribunal considered to be “delusional” after he claimed that his dismissal was brought about by Jehovah’s Witnesses “spreading rumours about his sexuality; preventing witnesses from assisting him; installing secret cameras in changing rooms and in his room; falsely imprisoning him in a Psychiatric Hospital; and showing the tapes to the then Prime Minister, Tony Blair.”
The Tribunal ordered a report in to the Claimant’s mental capacity to represent himself. The claimant appealed on a number of grounds including that:
- The Tribunal did not have the right to enquire in to his mental health
- The “Chairperson ruled after “PHR” that Respondent pays compensation for allegations they are guilty of. She concluded that we await her order to that effect. Claim was not stayed. Judgment is in total variance to what transpired during the hearing. Therefore a forgery.”
The EAT upheld the appeal relating to the Tribunal’s power to enquire in to his mental health. It held that the Tribunal had no right to so enquire. However, the Claimant’s appeal that the judgment was a forgery and that instead of staying the claim it awarded him compensation failed. There was no evidence to support this contention!
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By Sarah - Thursday, October 25th, 2007
Professor Julian Le Grand, a former advisor toTony Blair and chair of Health England has had a new brainwave!
He said when speaking at Royal Statistical Society, companies with more than 500 staff should be required to set aside a one-hour exercise period every day in order to boost the fitness of their workforce. They should also provide their employees with fruit.
Food for thought? Here at PJH we believe that exercise of the body can better the mind and have corporate membership of the gym. We occasionally also make smoothies and juices as a team with our special smoothie maker. Are the Professors comments a step too far? Share your thoughts.
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By Philip - Thursday, May 3rd, 2007
This case is worth reading because it contains a rather bizarre set of facts. The Claimant alleged that she was employed by the Respondent, a Mrs Petia Chickerova. The nub of the Claimant’s case was that Mrs Petia Chickerova owed her about £800.00 for cleaning work. The delightfully named Mrs Petia Chickerova did not respond to the ET1 when she received it because she said that the claim could not be against her as firstly she had never heard of the Claimant, the equally wonderfully named, Mrs O Holovachuk, and secondly the Tribunal letter had left the a off the end of her name.
The matter went to review. Mrs Chickerova kept up her denial of ever having met Mrs Holovachuk and therefore denied owing her any unpaid wages. Mrs Holovachuk produced her notebook which had Mrs Chickerova’s handwriting in. Mrs Chickerova agreed it was her handwriting but denied having met or employed Mrs O Holovachuk. Quite how her handwriting got into Mrs O Holovachuk’s notebook we will never know! Mysterious, isn’t it, unless of course there could be a totally fantastic and incredible explanation like, let’s see, (cough, drifting into the world of speculation and loony conspiracy theory) Mrs O Holovachuk had been Mrs Chickerova’s employee and she had written in Mrs O Holovachuk’s book telling her what to clean and iron on a particular day. That couldn’t be the case could it?
Needless to say Mrs Chickerova appealed the decision in what the EAT say were quite “angry” terms. Despite there being a technical point about the statutory grievance procedure for the EAT to consider, this story had a happy ending. Mrs H won the appeal. Perhaps Mrs Chickerova should watch a Few good men and learn, Jack Nicholson style, how to handle the truth.
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By Philip - Tuesday, May 1st, 2007
……stand up.
HR Practitioners have a whole raft of tools at their disposal when recruiting. Selection centres, tests, structured interviews, character profiling etc, all have their place. Well now in the web-savvy world we live in, recruiters have a new weapon in their armoury. HR departments are checking out candidates’ my space and facebook entries to see if the prospective employees are the right sort, candidates’ applications have not been taken forward based on candidates’ entries on those social networking sites. Read about it here
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By Philip - Tuesday, November 7th, 2006
The Supreme Court upheld the decision in earlier courts that a Philippine Judge’s “dalliance with dwarves” was sufficient grounds for justifing his removal as a Judge. He was originally fired for consulting mystic dwarves administrative reasons. He claimed to be a nutcase have psychic powers and that with the help of his three mystic dwarves (Armand, Luis and Angel) he could appear in two different places at once, see into the future and conduct healing sessions in chambers. Even after being struck off he was defiant in defeat by writing to the Court and claiming ” from obscurity, my name and the three mystic dwarves became immortal”.
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By Philip - Friday, November 3rd, 2006
A Solicitor may be facing disciplinary action for dropping his trousers at a Magistrates Court. Apparently the aptly named Willie Johnstone was annoyed by new security measures and invited security guards to do a full body search. The Court Service was not amused.
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